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I'm just wondering who thought it was a good idea to put some share links hovering ABOVE the scroll bar. http://imgur.com/xF5UP

I don't know how many times I have lost the scroll handle behind it when this widget is used.
Air and Flex are dead technologies. http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/11/adobe-donates-flex-t...
here's the interesting bits from the (gasp PDF) TOS.

User Applications and Data
Users may upload a binary code version of an Android software applications to the Service in order to use its
emulation functionality. The Service will automatically extract certain information from these application files to
improve the functionality of the Service, such as the name of the application, its size, SDK version, and icon. You
will retain ownership of your software applications and any information we extract from your files (the “User
Data”). You hereby grant us a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, host, store, reproduce,
modify, adapt, publish, distribute, communicate, perform, and display your User Data solely for the purpose of
providing Service to you. Users are solely responsible for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability,
appropriateness, and for obtaining or maintaining all necessary intellectual property rights to the User Data.
- 2 -
The Service will not run your software applications unless you specifically choose to do so. You may delete an
application you have uploaded to the Service at any time.
Klok, one of the better time-management software for the Mac, runs on AIR.
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On that same note people shouldn't allow their employees to have abusive practices. Carrying a keycard to get into a building is one thing, having a RFID scanner that logs every time I enter the kitchen or bathroom is another.
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"Startup" vs. "bootstrapped company" is the "hacker vs. cracker" debate of tech entrepreneurship. At this point, you probably just need to let it go.

Congrats on the new business!
Hi! Creator/OP here. The problems aren't particularly hard, just need a little bit of reading. If you want an extra hint, problem #5 can be solved with pen and paper without much work :)

Hopefully this was fun.
I agree with nearly everything you say.

> I don't want a keyboard, or a web browser, or even a store.

It's not the most important point, but I absolutely love that I can finish a book and just go online and buy the next part of a series / a new book.

I read a lot so a convenient method to quickly get new stuff is awesome.

Also, the dictionary. My English is quite okay but many fantasy novels use archaic words I've never heard of before. Without a built-in dictionary I'd have to get the meaning purely from context.
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I don't know about female executives, but female hackers are a pleasure to work with. I'm lucky to be working with two right now on Nuuton, and its just great. Very smart hackers without the testosterone driven need to prove themselves on every opportunity. They just work independently and give great feedback. They are a key driver of the success of Nuuton.
What I mean is that hinting reduces the distinctions between fonts far more than mere antialiasing does. Or, equivalently, hinting discards more information.
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You don't perceive value the business? They still generate $300M in revenues per quarter. That sounds more like an emotional valuation rather than an objective valuation.
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If I'm reading the study correctly the impact seems to be:
1) There is a correlation between female execs and success, so companies that tend to do better are also companies that tend to have female executives.
2) We can't make any statements about causation, so this means it's not effective for companies to just say let's hire female executives--without fixing any underlying reasons they didn't before. In fact I'd guess it's more likely that both success and having female executives is a result of a better firm culture/outlook rather than one of them being the direct cause of the other.
This is a cruel thing to do to an innocent, possibly naive, online resource. :)
And, unlike ditch diggers and coalminers, programmers (and other educated folk) can work until they die if need be. This make it or break it silicon valley thing is kind of distorting people their brains. Most people in this world have a job to provide for their family; as a developer you are much better off doing that. You get paid more, it's easier to switch jobs, you can move mostly anywhere and you can work until you're old/dead and enjoy it. A lot of educated people (at least 2 devs) over 70 I know still work and are happy to do so.

And gambling on equity when you get paid well over average with all the options you have for your future is not that bad all considered.
Peter Thiel discussed the underlying worldview for why people think and act like Pincus at his startup class, which Blake Masters wrote up here:

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/23435743973/peter-thiels...

Worth a read. I think Pincus' overall approach is actually dominant right now in tech, not an outlier. Most people just aren't so crude about discussing it.
I presume you mean the N9? The N900 was Nokia's inaugural WP7 phone.

I still want to get one one day, probably not for daily use, but as a historical artifact from the history of the mobile revolution, a tragically brilliant product born at exactly the wrong time.
I used to work in a high school where the students did something very similar. They needed their ID cards to reserve a computer in the library, and they'd have one kid collect multiple ID cards and make reservations for his friends, or they'd borrow each others' ID cards and hope we wouldn't notice.
A few years ago, I saw a documentary that broke my heart.

A woman in China had an unnecessary, experimental operation done at a hospital, without her consent. It caused kidney failure, and she needed a transplant.

There was a match with a family member, but the hospital refused to pay for it, even though it could have been sued into bankruptcy in the US. For the want of $7,000 USD, she was dying.

Watching her sit with her young children on her lap, deathly sick with her husband by her side, the expression of finality and despair on their faces - I'm not ashamed to admit that it made me tear up.

Now that, to me, is god damn heartbreaking. I don't disagree with the direction of your sentiment, just the magnitude of the word you are using. It's close to the strongest feelings you can have on a subject. Did you really feel a pang in your heart when you read the article?

Because to me, those two stories aren't even on the same planet.
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The linux foundation is responsible for a very small portion of Ubuntu, and is probably one of the most funded parts. When I donate to Canocial to support ubuntu, I expect that money to go to where it will be most useful to making a good product.
It's what is preventing me from purchasing it. The cheapest kindle has perfect page turn button placement. All I need it to do is turn on and turn pages, and when one of those is worse than what the cheaper model can do, I'm going for the cheaper model.
I agree. My team at LinkedIn was awesome in that respect. There were several women on it. They were extremely talented from a technical perspective, and their communication skills were great. I'd echo what you said.
But if refusing to wear them is an option with few consequences (or, more specifically, few consequences a delinquent student would care about) then do the ID tags really accomplish that goal? Consider that the alternative is simply having the teachers do a $0 roll call before each class.

Indeed, ID cards seem like they might make identification more difficult, as they would allow unscrupulous students to trade tags and make it seem that their friends were in places that they were not.
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Simple points for an honest gut-check with any entrepreneur.
XKCD should really be a protocol.

"I'm getting an XKCD 303 back from the developer."
I wonder if these companies are actually kitchens.
this is really sad
Not just you. My pet peeve is that their sharing links gadget on the right side covers the scroll bar on at least Chrome. So, the scroll handle can get stuck under the links. Not very smart.
Debian's idea of stable really means super duper rock-solid extremely stable. Which is ok, but I had a hard time running newer software on it. I now use Debian Testing, which is most people's idea of stable. Several debian-derived distros are based on Testing, so it's probably ok.
This is really cool, nice work. That said, many of the problems I've experienced have more to do with weird behavior in the OEM code (i.e. TouchWiz) than core android stuff. It would be beyond awesome if there was a way to launch OEM versions by simply entering the model number of the device.
Not to spam, but hopefully this information is useful for some HN'ers. Our startup, http://velobit.com, provides caching as well.

Alas, it is not open source, but it does have some differentiators over bcache/dm-cache. The primary pro's of those two are that they are FOSS.

Major downsides are they they are kernel patches. DM-Cache is a little more difficult as well, in the sense that it is in the DM layer, so you're creating a new device when you apply caching. Contrast with our startup, where we insert ourselves directly into the existing devices (so no need to modify fstab, etc..). Of course, I like to think we have other major differentiators as well, but I won't go on and on about them here..

That being said, this caching (especially SSD-as-caching) space is huge right now, even though it doesn't get much attention in the hot-tech startup world.
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OpenMP support would be interesting, and should be possible by extending what we did for the OpenCL support. The basic machinery is very similar. Also, someone mentioned Fortran. There are Fortran bindings for the STDCL API that is built on top of OpenCL, so this could help interface to existing Fortran codes and provide a partial solution for Fortran programmers.
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Agree with most points.

I rant into a bug at the gym.

The usual tap, swipe to turn page was instead activating the font size select. I'm not sure if my sweaty finger (sorry for the image) was the cause, or some other bug in the Kindle.

Amazon really needs to make these devices solid. I like the e-ink for the relaxing time experience AND the fact that I don't have to worry about battery (mostly), I just shove it in my gym bag, something I can't do with my nexus 7, b/c the battery might be almost dead.
The repository maintainers seem pretty shy, but I'm pretty sure that the original author behind apt is this guy: https://github.com/jgunthorpe, and you could send him a few dollars using gittip: https://www.gittip.com/
I realize that your comment was mainly rhetorical but...

I don't have a problem with duplicates. I think a lot of things are worth reading/seeing/doing multiple times. Moreover I do no think or expect anyone to be perfect.

I do have a problem with Colin's crusade against duplicates. I don't think it sets the right tone for HN and it is a disincentive for people to submit things. I would rather have people feel free/comfortable submitting things and then let the up voting system separate the chaff. If you go through Colin's comments you can see hundreds of discussion ending comments about duplicate stories. Given his distaste for duplicates I found it disingenuous that he would bring up the problem of duplicates given his was the third duplicate in the list.

If its a recent exact duplicate the submission is merely another upvote and which is a neat function of the system (this happened to me recently with a story I submitted about correlation/causation that you had already submitted) If its a duplicate and boring it will be flagged or at the very least not up voted. If its a duplicate and people find it interesting it will be up voted. If a duplicate is up voted that I have read before I can choose to ignore it or read the discussion to see if there are new opinions. Duplicates are not a problem for me, reducing the likelihood of people contributing to HN is a problem.
No, you are thinking of the Lumia 900. The N900 was indeed Maemo-based.
Out of curiosity, I often read gender/green studies mentioned in mainstresm press, published by various NGO. I am constantly horrified how misused statistics is. I believe that most of these studies are written for a specific purpose and math is there just to give it a science-cover. Even worse, I hear them cited by politicians making a real impact to our lives.
Now that is hyperbole..
Depending if you like what you are doing? I don't know a lot of people working to get rich and cannot imagine everyone in the valley is.
This is from June, here are some benchmarks of the proprietary Catalyst driver vs the open source driver built into ubuntu.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r...

I'd be shocked if they'd made up that huge gap in 3 months.
I second this. Get everything in writing. But you know, even THAT isn't good enough sometimes.

But don't fret, if (when) Zynga does collapse, it's execs (including the founder, who I hear is a piece of work) will be up to their eyeballs in lawsuits. Ahh the fun, writing checks to your lawyers.
Can you (or lubutu) share some pics? Thanks.
AIR and Flex are two very different beasts.
The miner is not heartbroken in that scenario. He is dead.
Yes, and they spend nearly $400M per quarter to generate that revenue. Using more precise numbers, their net loss over the last 4 quarters was about $0.73 per share. By my rule of thumb of awarding a P/E of 10, that makes the business worth -$7.30 per share.

Now in reality, that is a very simplistic analysis, and in point of fact, I do perceive some value in the business, just not very much. It is something that is very hard to quantify (as are other intangibles like copyrights and trademarks). In the end, I do have to go with my gut a little bit (as you say "an emotional valuation"). I don't personally have much use for Zynga's games or their business model, so I am aware that I might undervalue them somewhat, but what the the numbers tell me is that they are a poor business to invest in even at this "low" price. Other non-financial comments on this story and elsewhere reinforce my opinion that when it comes to doing business, Zynga has a lot to learn.
It's RT. They tend to err on the side of paranoia and conspiracy, so it isn't a surprise that they worded this in the particular way that they did.
I really really hope that results like this will serve as a wake-up call to the community that is the valley. We've gone from creating microchips, putting a PC on every desk, opening up and connecting the web to the whole world with pioneers and visionaries, to nowadays creating low-quality browser games which are used to scam users out of private information/money led by ex-wall-street banker deploying sweatshop-like environments, and stealing stock back from employees while scamming public investors at the same time.

Allowing things like this to happen, accepting that this kind of behavior is okay and enabling these kinds of characters to thrive is exactly why the valley has become so frothy. The transformation of Silicon Valley into Hollywood, where anyone with a big enough mouth and large enough ego can thrive is nearly complete. But I'll sure fight tooth and nail until the day I get squeezed out of this place - voting with my dollars and my labor, and a small but convinced voice in what is right and what is wrong.
Every couple of months, I recharge my Themeforest account (html templates), as well as my Moniker's (domain names). I pay and they credit my account, which makes it easier to buy goods, without the hassle of a payment process. The thing is, while I put in $50, I probably only use $10 at a time and my account can stay credited for months. I'd be ready to bet that by the time my credits have all been spent, the money I originally paid for them has accumulated some interest for these vendors. This revenue model is rather common.

If Ubuntu sold vouchers that allowed me to buy software at a slight discount, rather than connecting to Paypal each time, I'd pay for it. The best part is that it has the numbers and the products to make it work for them as well.
I have never noticed any performance problems with free ATI drivers. Have you used the free drivers and thought it felt sluggish?
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The problem with Zynga is that they are dependent on FB (who takes a share of their revenue - which is even worse). That's a huge risk.

Despite trying to step out from FB's shadow, they are still there- between a rock and a hard place.
What about all the people that work at Zynga who are not developers? The artist, the people in Q/A, and the rest? In many cases they are working just as hard without the compensation packages or virtual guarantee of another job if Zynga goes under. To me, it really is heartbreaking.
"Over the most recent 12-month period, Ubuntu accounted for 1.1 billion hits to Wikimedia, with the next-most popular Linux desktop distribution—Red Hat's Fedora—accounting for 36.7 million."

That's a much wider gap than I expected.
What I really need is a way to emulate specific devices.

My Android app crashes on a Droid Razr Maxx right now, when it rotates, and I don't have one to test on, so I have to get crash logs from users.
I think that female executives have this inner intuition that connects them well with customers; that's why they're doing well on social media. Just a thought.
This issue specifically, and others like it (snapshot management, bugs in the interface to create emulators, such as setting the hw keyboard) really made managing local android emulators a pain for us. We thought we could make the experience better, so we made Manymo.
It doesn't appear that they controlled for the size of the company. So it could be that larger companies in the survey (but still "startups") have more females, since they hired and few founders are women.

Not that women don't drive startup success! But DJ disappoints on statistical analysis.
Great interview. I've always found Jason Shen to be an inspirational and positive person. A rarity nowadays!
I tell you, this is one of the biggest selling points to me about products with rapid deployment such as Ubuntu utilities, Firefox, Chrome, and the like. Fixing any bug and pushing an update in hours upon discovery is just awesome. We live in great times.
(Standard disclaimer: IANAQP, but...)

I think you're on to something. Rather than model each quark and gluon explicitly, you could just model probabilistic interactions at much larger scales. Maybe put in some special case handling so that if an observer within our simulated universe were to go looking for quarks and gluons, they'd find them. If they looked hard enough, some gaps might show: since subatomic particles are not actually being simulated in a continuously deterministic fashion, it would never be possible to observe both position and velocity simultaneously. An observer looking at an electron shell in two discrete moments would not be able to track a continuous orbit between them, since they'd actually just be seeing two separate expansions of what is effectively a lossy compression algorithm.

Also, it ought to be possible to model only the macroscopic dimensions explicitly, replacing the other seven microscopically enfolded dimensions with a bunch of arbitrary constants that accomplish more or less the same thing. Might drive our observers a bit batty, because those constants would appear to refer to a bunch of microscopic enfolded dimensions, which they'd never actually be able to detect.

Right, now I'm starting to freak myself out...
I totally agree with you, logically; but I also don't really have any problem with the earlier poster saying it was "heartbreaking", either. Certainly to the people involved at Zynga, the situation is heartbreaking — and our sympathy/empathy responses are based on our ability to "feel" (in some way) a similar experience to that which we imagine others are feeling.
What a great story for a sports news service.
Fantastic blog post! You have a much more optimistic approach that I could learn from. Too often I find myself saying "Because I said so, dammit! You code, I design!," but the idea of building trust and credibility is a good one.

One of the challenges of design education for developers is that developers are naturally geared toward rule sets, which becomes a problem when the designer decides to break the rules for a justifiable reason. Just like devs couldn't teach a designer to code in a day, a designer can't really provide all of the ins-and-outs of good design to devs. Perhaps education needs to be introduced to devs as to the value of UI/UX, rather than the specifics.
There's also hot tracking RFC patches floating around for the VFS layer. bcache seems quiet nice, there are block layer refactorings going on right now in order to get it merged.
I switched to an nvidia card about a year ago because the free ATI drivers either gave terrible OpenGL performance or some apps didn't work at all because features were missing from the drivers and the proprietary drivers gave me all kinds of horrible glitches.
It's not exactly new, development started in 2006.

https://lwn.net/Articles/211246/

dm-cache is the project Facebook's flashcache is based on.

https://github.com/facebook/flashcache

I'm not sure if there's ongoing work to merge dm-cache or flashcache into the upstream linux kernel. With bcache there is.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2012-July/msg00155.h...
I wonder if some people would cheer at the sinking of the Titanic because all the rich people lost their stuff that they couldn't take with them in the lifeboats.
Russia Today is an unreliable source to start with, and quoting worldNet Daily - famous mainly for conspiracy theories about Obama not being a Us citizen and for having a political opinion column by Chuck Norris - renders the story even less credible. Besides, even if it is all absolutely legit...

Hernandez said in an interview with Salon that subjecting herself to constant monitoring through an RFID chip is like being branded with the “mark of the beast” – a reference to the Bible's apocalyptic Book of Revelations.

...why should I give a hoot about people with such crackpot religious beliefs? We pander enough to this sort of nonsense already, and if the student finds it that objectionable maybe she should go to a private school instead. I am not a fan of the surveillance society, but given the staggeringly high truancy, dropout and incidence of gun crime on American high school campuses, trackable student IDs are low on the list of things to worry about.
Going to the mat to double your options and attempting to deal with them with your eyes open, only to have shenanigans on the back end is nothing that can be protected against. Hey, they're a public company, the shenanigans are out of the bosses hands...or are they?
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$0 roll call before each class.

That's about a $10 roll call, even if you assume the children's time and education is valueless. (Assumption: you can complete it in only 10% of the instructional time per day, teachers have a fully loaded cost of approximately $100 an hour.) The school would, quite literally, spend thousands of dollars a day on roll calls.